picket
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈpɪkɪt/
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piquete
- The workers stood together in solidarity on the picket line, advocating for better wages.
- a picket line
- cross the picket line
- walk the picket line
This will mean that you're going to end up carrying a picket sign, walking around angry with Birkenstocks on.
- This will mean that you're going to end up carrying a picket sign, walking around angry with Birkenstocks on.
- There were people with like picket signs saying like fuck Joe Biden and things like, you know, anti anti covad people.
- And what Black Lives Matter meant was very different on the two sides of the picket line.
Examples
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And what were all these people with picket signs doing out there?
Fiction book (2001) -
A large group of protestors carry picket signs in front of the campus gates.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a picket line, Uncle Max.
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Almost everyone had signed up to do some time on the picket line.
Fiction book (2002) -
Though we are not on strike, we will join the picket lines wherever possible.
Blog text (28) -
Barbara remembers walking picket lines with her mother when she was only five years old.
Academic text (2003) -
They'll all be standing in a picket line by morning.
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I was on the picket lines in 1926, you know.
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Al gave me an almost imperceptible nod and kept on moving along the picket line.
Fiction book (1994) -
"We Shall Overcome" was our anthem on the picket lines, and we believed in it.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
18
3.2
A worker who stops work to protest against their employer
3
4.9
A person who gathers outside a workplace to protest or support a cause
Compounds
27
4.2
A line of workers outside a workplace during a strike who stand to protest and stop others entering
23
2.0
A row of upright wooden or metal boards with spaces that mark the edge of a yard
How Active
Surface Forms
Etymology
A picket in a protest took its name from military guards: people standing outside a workplace act like guards at a post, watching and warning others. So the word picket grew to mean someone who stands outside a place of work to protest.